Richard Wooten, a retired police officer from the South Side’s 6th District and a former Sixth Ward aldermanic candidate, said those inaugural changes barely scratched the surface.

“You can’t accept the little minute changes… [the reforms were] things that were simple to do and could have been done a while ago,” Wooten said, adding that real reform must begin when the police contract is renewed next year. The current FOP contract expires June 30, 2017.

But Wooten stopped short of blaming the Mayor of dragging his feet. “I think he wants to make change. He literally has to because of the DOJ.”

Craig Futterman, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, who helped draft an ordinance with Ald. Leslie Hairston (5) to abolish the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), the agency in charge of handling cases of police misconduct, was more blunt in his criticism of the administration. “We’re going back to the old playbook of create a task force, put it on a shelf, as a delay and stalling tactic,” he said. “That’s what’s failed our leaders for so many years. You can call me two years from now after how many other kids die and we’re mired in yet another scandal.”

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